Beyond more common weather terms lies a field of rarely used but humorous monikers to describe the weather around us. Some were just invented, some have been around for hundreds of years. Here are a ...

Sitting by the beach and listening to the tide come in is one of my favorite things to do. But if you stop and think about what causes the tide and how our world is so connected, it’s fascinating.

Radar has come a long way from its humble origins about a century ago, and today it’s become extremely advanced with numerous applications. Radar is actually an acronym that stands for Radio Detection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we get deeper into the winter season, winter weather alerts will be a given. Winter weather alerts are either a watch, advisory ...

In more than 20 years as a meteorologist, I learned plenty about how people interpret weather forecasts. Perhaps the most interesting (frustrating?) thing is that people ignore the words "chance" and ...

Welcome to this first edition of “Weather Word of the Week.” In this weekly segment, Meteorologist Derek Witt will explain the more technical terms of atmospheric science, and how they influence our ...

A home on Main Street in Hingham, Massachusetts, nearly covered by snowdrifts. T his segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief newsletter. Sign up here to get weekday updates ...

While CAPE (when referring to weather) may not have the same definition as a superhero would use, in some ways, it does help give a thunderstorm superpowers. CAPE is an acronym that stands for ...